Nice article on the Shaban brothers in today's RTD:
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/...-special-ar-1025380/
Also, if you read the box score, you would see that Cosby 2008 grad Jake Lowery homered in Sunday's game for JMU, his 21st of the year. I believe he still leads the NCAA in HR's!
I thought that Cosby 2008 team was the state's best from top to bottom. They got nipped in the state quarterfinals in a game ended by lightning just as they were staging a comeback. That allowed James River to eke by their own quarterfinal and make a closing run to the championship. But Cosby had handled James River during the season pretty well prior to that.
Consider the alumni of that Cosby 2008 squad. Bradley Shaban was a junior then, along with LHP Hunter Ackerman, who went pro last year after a year at Louisburg JuCo. The senior class was led by Ronnie Shaban (district co-player of the year), Lowery, Dustin Sollars (now at Longwood), Tadd Bower (now at W&M) and Ryan Parker (now at Seton Hall).
How 'bout THAT lineup? Plus I think they had a D-3 guy and another kid who might've played had he not been more interested in football. Someone will need to help my memory for those names. But there was not a weaker sister from 1 to 9 when you played Cosby!
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